Obviously, I agree with what Robert is saying. On the pretended basis of security for all, a sort of madness has taken over and results in security for wrongdoers in the government, NGO’s and banking systems. This is accompanied by an increasing lack of security for the people and warfare against those who tell the truth. I like this extract: “But the void in this debate is at the very center: at the nature of security. If we put more energy and resources into creating a fair world — building society around common sense, the Golden Rule, universal access to decent education, environmental sustainability, and nonviolent conflict resolution — we’d reap immediate and long-lasting benefits.”

What I keep longing to hear, in the hemorrhaging national debate about Edward Snowden, whistleblowing and the NSA, is some acknowledgment of what the word “security” actually means, and what role — if any — the government should play in creating it.

“You can’t have 100 percent security and also have 100 percent privacy.”

A moment of silence, please, for the dying patriarchy. That, of course, was how President Obama explained it to the American public shortly after the spy scandal hit the fan. When did we become “the children” in our relationship with the government, irrelevant to its day-to-day operations, utterly powerless as we stand in its massive, protecting shadow?

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About Ken McMurtrie

Retired Electronics Engineer, most recently installing and maintaining medical X-Ray equipment. A mature age "student" of Life and Nature, an advocate of Truth, Justice and Humanity, promoting awareness of the injustices in the world.

3 Responses to Privacy, Security and Sanity

Unnecessary, extreme secrecy is the Monster running amok in the castle of national security.

It is the Monster that has overthrown in spirit, if not in letter, a government that was meant to be of the People, by the People, and for the People.

If unstopped, this Monster will consume to the last drop all our civil liberties which are the vital lifeblood of our partial republican democracy.

To slay this Monster once and for all–speaking metaphorically for sustained nonviolent action by We The People–it must be dragged out into the bright light of day, subjected to the scorching sunshine that will scour away all its evil.

Therefore, as the first step in my open-source solutioneer72-dot-com countersurveillance manifesto, I have proposed programmatic transparency with compulsory disclosure as per a variegated cloak of secrecy.

In other words, all state surveillance actions must be logged in detail within a centralized database programmed to automatically capture such actions and alert targets (along with advocacy groups such as the ACLU, EFF, EPIC, and the National Lawyers Guild) immediately or up to no more than 13 months later, depending on where the targeted US citizen / permanent resident is listed on an innocence spectrum, from law-abiding American on one end to, on the other end, an American officially designated as a suspect in an attempted or committed act of terror.

Such programmatic transparency will empower ordinary Americans seeking due process and redress–while inevitably sparking revelation-based debates on the morality, constitutionality, legality, and basic decency of state surveillance practices.

Programmatic transparency, once enacted, will not only metaphorically slay the Monster, but also it will open the gates and lower the drawbridge for We The People to storm and seize the castle of national security–which is, after all, purpose-built for our protection, not our persecution.

As the rightful rulers of this castle, We The People will then be able to holistically reshape our national security agenda–away from counterproductive, neocolonial, imperialist tactics which only create ever-new monsters to endlessly menace us–and towards a geopolitics of cosmopolitan, eco-sustainable, and truly democratic global coexistence.

After almost 14 years as a target of state and non-state surveillance, I am now speaking out on behalf of all who are or will be mistreated like me, before it becomes too late for us to universally secure life, liberty, equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.

For this purpose, I have set up a website (solutioneer72.com), a facebook page (Solutioneer Seventy-Two), and a twitter stream (@solutioneer72)–all promoting my open-source countersurveillance manifesto ‘Mastering the Genie of State Surveillance’.

In it, I propose a 3-step solution for unleashing civil liberties in our era of electronic existence, while still ensuring national security in an age of asymmetric warfare.

Please help spread word and deed by reading, critiquing, sharing, and even rewriting this manifesto–as well as by creatively incorporating it into non-violent acts of protest.

Technical HINTS:

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To believe the mainstream media is to risk ever knowing the truth about the real world. To believe government, (any government), issued information without considering their agenda(s), is to risk being brainwashed.

WISDOM

"Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter".--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me". - Isaac Newton

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” – Albert Einstein, who also said:
"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and the press, usually the church as well. under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and makes its tool of them!" And,
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
— Gustave Flaubert

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